The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-22

mar school, 1887, 204; 1886, 23s; Fourth
street school, 1887, IS; 1885, TO- Total, 1887,
]. OSS; total, 1886, 1902 This shows a de
crease of four students in the city white
schools In the suburbs there We're: East
Macon 1887, 81; 1886, "a; Gilesville, 1887,
II; lsS6, l9S; Nineville 1897, IS; 1886, Io9
Total, 1881, $780, total, 1885, 325. This
shows q decrease of five students, MAX
ing total decrease of nine in the attend
| ance on the white schools. The colored
schools show: North Macon, 1887, pa;
1856, 210; South Macon, 1887, 90; 1886, 43;
total, 1887, 334; 1886, 318. This shows an
increase of twenty-one pupils on the part of
the colored schools, or net increase Of at
tendance, taking all the schools, of twenty
! five students. The seating capacity of the
! schools has been severely taxed, and num-
bers have been turned away for lack of ac-
Communications. There are now about 80
students, all told, in attendance, and it is
the opinion of some of the officials that the
attendance might be increased to :, 900 were
there another school house built in some
part of the city most accessible.
Macon Telegraph The story from Can.
ton and the article from the Atlanta Journal
in reference to the recent discovery by Tom
Woolfolk's lawyer of a negro in Canton
who claims connection with the wholesale
murder of the Voolfolk family, was read
yesterday by Mr. Burnett, who, with Mr..
Sam Chambliss, was the first man to enter
the house in which the crime had been COM
mitted. Mr. Burnett has been living in the
Hazard district for twenty years and was
close neighbor of the late Capt. Voolfolk
He knows every man, woman and child,
whether white or black, in the entire dis
trict, and not within his recollection of that
twenty years was there ever a negro named
Jack Debose at work thereaboutS. II is true
that strange negroes go to work out there,
but if they remain any length of time their
names are known, because the several gangs
of hands are few i'll number and easily &C
counted for. The story says Jack was sent
to the chain-gang for stealing an ak from
Capt. Voolfolk, and escaped several days
before the night of the killing. Such an
event in so neighborly a settlement would
have been known to Mr.. Burnett and other
neighbors, but there was no ak stolen. There
was, however, a negro named George Cald-
well who stole an OK from Capt. voolfolk,
and he was sent to the chain-gang. 1t is
true that George escaped from the gang,
but as he escaped on Sunday afternoon and
stole Rev. l., B. Payne's horse and buggy
and went on to Forsyth, where he was cap
tured Monday, it is safe to say that George
could not be found guilty of the murder
especially as it was committed two nights
before he escaped from the gang; and he
could not be in Canton sailing under the
name of Jack Debose, as he is still on the
gang The story says Jack mentions three
other negroes who were implicated in the
killing. Mr.. Burnett says the floor of the
room was covered with pools of blood, and
no one could have walked into the room
without leaving bloody tracks
on the floor. He saw only
one track, and that was made by a foot
encased i'll sock. Now as to the robbery.
Mr.. Burnett says there was nothing in the
way of valuables disturbed, and nothing
was missing from the house. Other wit
nesses say that money was found in
young Richard Woolfolk's pockets.
The story further says that Woolfolk's at
torney remained in the neighborhood some
time as tramp painter, and learned that
the deed was committed by a negro while
three other negroes robbed the house There
was tramp painter in the settlement, and
Mr.. Burnett saws his brOther-in-law is some
what inclined to the belief that there
was some resemblance between the
painter and Mr. Walker, but when here Mr..
Walker denied that he had used any such
disguise, or that he had ever gone out there
except when with Coroner Hodnett, and as
the Coroner never left his side during the
entire trip, he heard every word exchanged
between the attorney and every person to
whom he talked. There was nothing in
these conversations to intimate that the
crime was committed by negroes
Mr. Burnett laughs at the story through
out, and regards it as piece of fiction, ex-
cept that there may be some poor negro in
the Canton Jail.